Woman accused of witchcraft, was burned at the stake in Paraguay.

Local prosecutors in Paraguay have
confirmed that a woman accused of having
witchcraft has been burned alive. Prosecutor
Fany Aguilera said that members of the
Mbya Guarani ethnic group tied 45-year-old
Adolfina Ocampos to a wooden pole and
shot arrows at her before they burned her
alive. Huffingtopost world reports:
Ocampos was sentenced to death
last week by the community’s chief
in Tahehyi, a village some 180
miles (290 kilometers) north of the
capital, Asuncion. The date of the
killing was unclear.
Aguilera has charged nine men in
the village with first-degree murder,
and they have already
acknowledged killing the woman.
A report by the UN Refugee Agency
estimates that thousands of
people worldwide are accused of
being witches every year. The UN
says they are often abused, cast
out of their families and
communities and sometimes killed.
But the case here is unusual.
“I’ve been working in Paraguay for
40 years and I can’t remember a
similar episode of an execution for
alleged sorcery,” said Jose
Zanardini, an Italian anthropologist
and Catholic priest. “The tragic
death of this woman is isolated
and out of the ordinary within the
coexistence of Paraguay’s 20
ethnic indigenous groups. In
general, the Indians are very
peaceful and tolerant.”